israel has to meet a lot of these tests. they'll need american support. and i think we are seeing an engaged, sophisticate administration at work. >> brown: all this, of course, danielle pletka, goes to the sort of continuing fallout from the arab spring. all of these countries that nick burns just talked about and the management of that. >> and that's reality challenge. i mean, these are the questions. you know all of these sort of bureaucratic ideals -- hes had a relationship, we're maintaining this, we had a panel, we're following recommendations -- this is really about the national security of the united states and support for our allies in the region. and they're looking to us and what they are seeing is not, gee, we have a great relationship with these people." they're seeing that we're not engaged on the most pressing issues that are of importance to them, whether it's the iranian nuclear problem, it is the spillover from what is happening in syria. it's 80,000 people dead in syria. we have genuine threats that we're facing and we're not managing i